{"id":469,"date":"2012-05-21T10:43:48","date_gmt":"2012-05-21T17:43:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.corcorancoaching.com\/?p=469"},"modified":"2019-01-07T11:38:14","modified_gmt":"2019-01-07T17:38:14","slug":"using-a-virtual-assistant-for-prospecting-by-bob-corcoran-corcoran-coaching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.corcorancoaching.com\/blog\/using-a-virtual-assistant-for-prospecting-by-bob-corcoran-corcoran-coaching\/","title":{"rendered":"Using a Virtual Assistant for Prospecting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are numerous prospecting tools or lead generating avenues available to agents and the numbers are growing every day. The question asked the most is, \u201cWhich one gets the best results?\u201d The answer is always the same, \u201cAll of them and none of them,\u201d because it depends on what effort you put into contacting and following up with the leads. The saying, \u201cyou reap what you sow\u201d holds true no matter who, what, where or when you prospect. So you must have a plan of action to contact and follow up with your leads.<\/p>\n<p>Finding good leads takes more than just making a few contacts. It takes creative strategies, phone calls and time blocked into your daily schedule to make prospecting and follow-up calls. All too often when agents get busy with their existing clients, their prospecting efforts take a back burner. Then they come to a lag in their business and have to start prospecting all over again, creating the real estate roller coaster in their income.<\/p>\n<p>Too busy? Consider a virtual assistant as your prospector. A virtual assistant is someone who can increase the performance and effectiveness of your business. While you are working with your existing transactions, a virtual assistant can take prospecting off the back burner and throw it right into the fire, providing you with hot leads on a consistent basis.<\/p>\n<p>The first step in accomplishing this goal is to find the assistant: Founded in 2008, <a href=\"https:\/\/myoutdesk.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MyOutDesk.com<\/a> provides industry-leading real estate virtual assistant services for over 5,000 clients, including half of the top 10 RealTrends Teams in the USA. We specialize in virtual assistant staffing to provide cost-effective administrative, prospecting and marketing services to real estate agents. This is a great place to start to create an action plan for prospecting.<\/p>\n<p>Decide which tasks you want your \u201cprospector\u201d to perform and which tasks you want to handle yourself. Make it clear what you want them to accomplish. Check in with them at least weekly for status reports. Make it normal protocol to have \u201cstaff\u201d meetings one morning each and every week. Discuss which prospecting tools are working and which are not, and improvise your plan depending on your results. Be sure your virtual assistant is using proven scripts so that the message your prospects hear is consistent. Daily lead reports from your virtual assistant are recommended. By holding your virtual assistant accountable for the leads, you will realize greater results.<\/p>\n<p>It just takes a little time, effort and creativity to identify new leads. When you sow consistently, prospecting will bring in a bountiful harvest.<\/p>\n<p>Make A Commitment: I will decide which tasks I want my \u201cprospector\u201d to perform and which tasks I want to handle myself. I will keep in touch with him\/her weekly for status reports.<br \/>\nDeadline: _________<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.corcorancoaching.com\/\">Corcoran Coaching<\/a> is an international consulting and coaching company specializing in performance coaching and the implementation of sound business systems for small business owners, including residential or commercial brokers, teams or individual agents. Learn how to create and implement cost effective operational, business and sales systems that have a proven decades-long track record of successfully driving you to your next level of sales productivity.<\/p>\n<p>Isn\u2019t it time you invested in yourself to be as successful and effective as the top producers? Success is just a phone call away. Call today at 1-800-957-8353 or email us at <a href=\"mailto:successteam@corcorancoaching.com\">SuccessTeam@CorcoranCoaching.com<\/a> to start the conversation and get your <a href=\"https:\/\/www.corcorancoaching.com\/free-business-consultation\">no cost, no obligation business consultation<\/a> with one of our experienced professional success coaches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are numerous prospecting tools or lead generating avenues available to agents and the numbers are growing every day. The question asked the most is, \u201cWhich one gets the best results?\u201d The answer is always the same, \u201cAll of them and none of them,\u201d because it depends on what effort you put into contacting and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[9,11,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29,30,31,32,33,34],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Using a Virtual Assistant for Prospecting - Real Estate Coaching Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.corcorancoaching.com\/blog\/using-a-virtual-assistant-for-prospecting-by-bob-corcoran-corcoran-coaching\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Using a Virtual Assistant for Prospecting - Real Estate Coaching Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"There are numerous prospecting tools or lead generating avenues available to agents and the numbers are growing every day. 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